My article about the NASA WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft appears in this week's Space Review. thespacereview.com/article/5174/1

Our Janes report is live. In it, Sean O'Connor and I examine developments across China’s early warning network. Among the more notable is a unpublicized system resembling a possible land-based derivative of the Type 346 radar. A series of these have been identified along China's littorals. #geoint

Anthropic CEO. "at a high level, I am concerned that LLMs are approaching (or may already have reached) the knowledge needed to create and release [biological weapons] end-to-end, and that their potential for destruction is very high." www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

I wrote about JUMPSEAT a few years ago. The NRO has not released much that is new, other than the images. Hopefully they will declassify more in the near future. www.thespacereview.com/article/4096/1

The National Reconnaissance Office has declassified limited details about JUMPSEAT, a Cold War-era signals intelligence satellite program in HEO. www.nro.gov/news-media-f...

Anta Rupflin (German painter) 1895 - 1987

Dunkelhaariger Mann mit großem Schal, (Max Birrer), 1927

tempera on canvas
(23.62 x 18.11 in.)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Die chinesische Marine im Jahresrückblick 2025 – Teil 2: U-Boot-Flotte, Logistik, Forschung & Entwicklung Im ersten Teil dieses Überblicks hat hartpunkt wichtige Entwicklungen für die chinesische Überwasserflotte im vergangenen Jahr beleuchtet. Der zweite Teil bietet eine Zusammenfassung der bedeutendsten...

Teil 2 der deutschen Fassung meines Jahresrueckblicks ueber die chinesische Marine (PLAN) im vergangenen Jahr, fuer @hartpunkt.bsky.social:

www.hartpunkt.de/die-chinesis...

Don't believe your lying eyes:

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments

More detailed analysis of the killing of Renee Good, this time from the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

A black and white sketch of Mount Hood, seen from a roughly ground level view. It is in a black frame, and on a blue background. Off to the left are a vertically stacked series of smaller images, too small to read. Each is different-looking, but all are black and white miniature versions of posters. The miniature version of the Mount Hood poster is highlighted in white.

Sample images of three monochrome posters each prepared in a line drawing style. One shows Mount Rainier, another Katahdin, and the last one shows Devil's tower. The posters are stacked on top of each other and the Mount Rainier one is partially rolled up.

A detailed zoom in of a hachured representation of the Presidential Range, with peaks labeled.

A vertical-orientation poster titled "The Seven Summits" — it shows black and white sketches of seven different peaks, the highest on each continent. The peak sketches alternate between being positioned on the left and the right side of the poster. Next to each is a label naming the mountain and giving its location. The poster is framed on a blue background.

I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com.

There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...

If you could share them around, I would be grateful!

Hi there, do you ever make those files available

A 1940s topo map of Guinea and Liberia, overlaid on top of an OpenStreetMap basemap

Georeferencing is one of my favorite parts of my job. It's just so satisfying to get an old map lined up in the right place and be able to reproject it.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Terrific high quality images of Type 076 LHA Sichuan docked at the old Hudong facility in Shanghai. I dont think we've seen the hull as clearly before. Via _p2p/Wb.

A screenshot of the first page of document by Hans Bethe labeled "The Story of Los Alamos." It is a scan of a weathered document and shows classification review marks and classification markings crossed out. On the right, going horizontally up the page, is a handwritten phrase reading "redacted version." The OCR of the first page is as follows: "the laboratory was established as the the last of the tour maJor proJeots in the atomic bomb program. the purpose ot the three earlier proJects vas to manufacture active materials which could be used in an atomic bomb. 'I'vo of themthe project of Dr. Lawrence at the University of California and of Dr. Urey at Columbia University vere concerned vith the separation of the active isotopes 235 from ordinary uranium using ~o different methods. The third, the Metallurgical La~ratory at Chicago, developed methods to produce the entirely new element plutonium by means of a nuclear reaction. All of these proJecte vere , in the Spring of 1943, at a stage of transition from re- " search to actual production. At this stage it seemed appropriate to establish a furthsr laboratory to investigate the actual construction ot an atomic bomb. ~is laboratory vas built at Los Alamos, near Santa Fe, Hew Mexico. As Director, General Groves who vas in over all charge of the atomic bomb project, appointed Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer, vell-known theoretical physicist from the University of California. The laborator1 vas first in tended to be quite small vith a total staff of one or two hundred. It aoon vas found that the problema in deaigning an atomic bomb were much too difficult and varied to be solved by such a small statf and the laboratory aoon grew to more than ten ti~es its original size"

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos."

It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk

#NukeSKY

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Detailed footages of collapsed structure at the 31st Launch Complex of the Baikonur Cosmodrome

A collage of book covers. A headline reads: "The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025."

It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

we have to go back. to warn them.

GitHub - nkeikon/tifviewer: A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line. Contribute to nkeikon/tifviewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

`viewtif` now supports File Geodatabase (.gdb)! Thanks to the contribution by Peter Von der Porten ✨ Check out the v0.1.7 github.com/nkeikon/tifv...

For those who don't have access to imagery, a new Russian radar we've been monitoring that could be associated with the S-500 is now in Google Earth.

NEW: Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani’s visit to Beirut likely reflects Iranian efforts to recover Iranian influence in Lebanon and in the Levant after Hezbollah’s degradation and the collapse of the Assad regime. 🧵(1/4)

Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...

SpaceFromSpace now features over 500 declassified Cold War era spy satellite images from all over the world! Each one fully browsable, interactive, and free for anyone to view.

spacefromspace.com/declassified...

The Milky Way in the night sky.

The night will be shining through a million eyes.
Ad Astra ✨

The Western Veil Nebula NGC 6960 ✨

Capturing ancient stellar violence in the constellation Cygnus! This shows the aftermath of a massive star that exploded over 20,000 years ago.

Part of a larger mosaic project to capture the entire Cygnus Loop! 🌌

#Astrophotography #veilnebula

Crew abandons Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says Crew members aboard a Liberian-flagged ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea have abandoned the vessel as it took on water.

Crew abandons Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says

apnews.com/article/yeme...

A nice 1 look collect from @capellaspace.bsky.social showed the total destroyed structures at the Ahvez UAV airstrip which included UAV hangars, weapons storage areas, the control building, and various support structures.